9.7% ▲ +9.9%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Postmans Ridge · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Postmans Ridge
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
Traditional roots run deep in Postmans Ridge, where the vast majority of residents trace their origins to the UK and Australia. English and Australian ancestries are the most common, making up over 90% of the community's heritage.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
More than half of the people here claim English ancestry (51.4%), followed by Australian (38.6%) and Scottish (17.3%) roots.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
Only 9.7% of people were born overseas, which is far below the figures for Queensland (22.7%) and Australia (27.7%). Most residents were born in Australia (90.1%), with New Zealand as the next most common birthplace at 3.7%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Postmans Ridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32356/postmans-ridge/topic/ancestry-heritage